In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual procedure of switching the context from one thread to another. In this lesson, ...

Context switching implies switching between applications that are open but dormant in the background, waiting to be resumed where they were left off. This is a manual form of task switching.

All communication between SIPs is conducted through channels. The use of SIPs effectively eliminates the overhead traditionally incurred by context-switching in conventional microkernels.

What's the real cost when it comes to context switching? In this interview, I'll be discussing how our day is influenced when we switch from task to task.

But, by letting AI do the context-switching, each of us can be empowered to be more focused, productive and effective in our daily work.

Videos are popping up on YouTube showing off a cool trick on OS X: fast OS switching (the ability to simultaneously run and switch operating systems on your intel-based Mac with ease and cool ...